Misc Traditional – Farewell To The Rhonda (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

[Chorus]
G
Farewell you colliery workers, the muffler and the cap

    C                               D
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will be back

        G                C        C/A                 D
For the mines they are a-closing, valleys they're all doomed

        G              C                  D            G
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon
[Verse 1]
   G                          C
My father was a miner and his father was before him

     D                                 G
They always were quite proud to work below

G                                          C                 C/A
Since they fell neath Robin's axe, all the boys have got the sack

    D                              G
So away to work in England we must go
[Chorus]
G
Farewell you colliery workers, the muffler and the cap

    C                               D
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will be back

        G                C        C/A                 D
For the mines they are a-closing, valleys they're all doomed

        G              C                  D            G
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon
[Verse 2]
G                                C             C/A
No more the chapel singing, that long ago has left us

    D                               G
And in the public house, the miners song.

G                                     C                  C/A
For the population’s dropping, as the pit wheels keep on stopping

      D                              G
And I can’t afford to stay here very long
[Chorus]
G
Farewell you colliery workers, the muffler and the cap

    C                               D
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will be back

        G                C        C/A                 D
For the mines they are a-closing, valleys they're all doomed

        G              C                  D            G
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon
[Verse 3]
G                            C             C/A
Treherbert and Treorchy, Tonypandy and Tynewydd

  D                             G
Ystrad Rhondda, Ton Pentre all adieu

G                               C            C/A         D                           G
For I can no longer wait, while parliament debates, so a fond farewell I'm bidding unto you
[Chorus]
G
Farewell you colliery workers, the muffler and the cap

    C                               D
Farewell you Rhonda valley girls we never will be back

        G                C        C/A                 D
For the mines they are a-closing, valleys they're all doomed

        G              C                  D            G
There's no work in the Rhonda boys, we'll be in London soon